I've got a very achieving, but conservative family as well.
I came out when I was 13. I had everyone in there give me stern lectures except my grandparents, who attributed it to a phase. I'm pretty sure everyone thinks the phase is now over, what with the weightlifting and all.
But it's not. And sooner or later they'll have to deal with it. I keep wondering whether or not I should change my last name in this legal name change or not. I have such big doubts about my family accepting me. But, I'm so proud of my family and the things they've done. From national powerlifters to head coaches to top federal architects, first female brain surgeon in the US... it's really a bloodline I'm proud to come from.
Just they won't ever except my lifestyle, my beliefs, or my religion.
Things like my cousin getting a girl pregnant and refusing to marry her put us in a ginormous scandal for years. Just imagine when I drive over for x-mas vacation in a skirt>.>
No but seriously, I love them. Even though I barely know them, I haven't seen them in years, I love the. Perhaps it's that I've got so many early childhood memories with them in there, or just that it's biological love. Either way, I can accept their opinions, good or bad.
And that's really what matters, that YOU be okay with yourself. It's a bullet proof vest for the world we live in, it really is.
